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articulate

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 clear, effective 2 especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner 3 able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals 4 Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. 5 (label en obsolete of sound) Related to human speech, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Articulate \Ar*tic"u*late\, a. [L. articulatus. See Articulata .] Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] --Bacon. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants. Distinctly ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s in the speech sense (1570s as "formulated in articles"), from Latin articulatus (see articulate (v.)). Literal meaning "composed of segments united by joints" is from c.1600; the general sense of "speaking accurately" is short for articulate-speaking ...

Usage examples of articulate.

I observed that individual children, born totally deaf, preferred, even in conversation with one another, and when ignorant of the fact that I was observing them, the articulate words just learned, although these were scarcely intelligible, to their own signs.

Laura Bridgman, will invariably understand only a small part of the vocabulary of their language, and will not articulate correctly.

Later, are added to these the answers to simple spoken questions, these answers being partly interjectional, partly articulate, joined into syllables, words, and then sentences.

Beyond this no syllable can be named that marked the dawn of mental independence, none that testified to the voluntary use of articulate sounds for the purpose of announcing perceptions.

No one brings with him into the world a genius of such quality that it would be capable of inventing articulate speech.

For the power of forming concepts must have manifested itself in the primitive man, as is actually the case in the infant, by movements of many sorts before articulate language existed.

In spite of his four years the boy never got so far as to produce any articulate sounds whatever.

At the time ofBauzee or Condillac, the relation between roots, with their great lability of form, and the meaning patterned out of representations, or again, the link between the power to designate and the power to articulate, was assured by the sovereignty of the Name.

Classical modalities, but in an entirely new way, in order to articulate two natures one upon the other.

The only thing we know at the moment, in all certainty, is that in Western culture the being of man and the being of language have never, at any time, been able to coexist and to articulate themselves one upon the other.

Mr Chairman, my hope is that we make articulate the yearnings and the aspirations of the humblest of our people.

He believed passionately that it is the duty of the undeserving rich to support the deserving poor, of whom he elected himself the articulate representative.

One of the few intellectuals who could articulate, in abstract terms, the pragmatic motivations of the man from Prince Albert was Roy Faibish, who served through270 Exercise of Power out most of the Diefenbaker Years as special assistant to Alvin Hamilton.

This picture, clear and articulate, then becomes effective in the thoughts and actions of the leading history-makers of the Age.

Schiller was one of the first to articulate this general need, although both Voltaire and Winckelmann had written specific histories along these lines.